Re: [OT] The Forking of OpenOffice.org

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 16 January 2015 at 21:53, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I'm sorry, the TDF did not do that. Sun Microsystems did that and > Oracle's eventual response was probably inevitable. > ​Indeed. More could be said on this matter but in many ways the writing was on the wall when Oracle acquired Sun. We

[OT] The Forking of OpenOffice.org

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I promise to be more brief. Well, brief for me. I was startled to see, just the other day, part of the lamentation over LibreOffice being that The Document Foundation stole the livelihood of the Sun developers when OpenOffice.org was forked. I'm sorry, the TDF did not do that. Sun Microsystem